![One of many houses marked with the word "Tutsi" stands in a deserted village in eastern Rwanda, just a few kilometers from a church at Nyarubuye in which more than 1,000 people were massacred by Hutu militiamen.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2024/04/202403africa_Rwanda_CorinnePhotoTutsi.jpg?h=832350b5&itok=qOPlCQTy)
Rwanda
The ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) continues to target those perceived as a threat to the government. Several high-profile critics have been arrested or threatened and authorities regularly fail to conduct credible investigations into cases of enforced disappearances and suspicious deaths of government opponents. Arbitrary detention, ill-treatment, and torture in official and unofficial detention facilities is commonplace, and fair trial standards are routinely flouted in many sensitive political cases, in which security-related charges are often used to prosecute prominent government critics. Arbitrary detention and mistreatment of street children, sex workers and petty vendors occurs widely.
![map of Rwanda](/sites/default/files/styles/country/public/media_2020/05/hrw_Rwanda_0_worldserve-map_0_800x600.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=En-OzalX)
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AfricaRwandan immigration authorities denied entry to Clémentine de Montjoye, a senior researcher in the Africa division at Human Rights Watch, upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, on May 13, 2024.
May 16, 2024
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February 15, 2024
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